Keep in mind in the year 2000 the average married man fvcked 2x a week. Not 1x a month like today. I used to think 2x a week was pathetic. My how have things changed.
If I had a live in gf that I was attracted to I'd be laying pipe every day.
Sex twice a week is decent and not pathetic. There's never been a time I thought sex twice a week was bad. I've always thought of that as a baseline for a relationship.
For a short amount time, you would do that. After something like 6 months to a year at most, the sex frequency would diminish to some degree. Cohabitating couples often see their sex lives diminish in both frequency and quality, depending upon how long they live together.
Long term relationships kill libido. It's less common to see couples together for 5 years or more to have active sex lives. In longer term relationships, there is a lot of sex for the first two years. From the 2 year anniversary to the 5 year anniversary, some couples have a good sex life while others start to fade. Mostly everyone has seen sex frequency dip by the 5 year anniversary.
Men who are serial monogamists have good sex lives. Serial monogamists are men who have 1-5 year long relationships in perpetuity from ages 15-55 with limited breaks in between them. So long as you don't put a ring on it (then it becomes a serial monogamy marriage path) or have kids with any of your lovers, you'll have a solid sex life. You'll also deal with a lot of female drama, especially in the downside in all those relationships. It does beat putting a ring on it and having a nasty divorce, as well as beats paying child support to some bitter ex.
the millennial generation is unique due to our boomer parents who enjoyed a period of success that was virtually unheard of and unique in it's own way, we've discussed this on here before. I feel that many millennials grew up with an excess that no other generations had enjoyed and when you combine this with the tech boom we had going into the first decade of this century it created many social issues.
Millennials as a whole got a raw deal. You're right the Boomers benefitted from coming of age in the 25 years post World War II when American supremacy was at its peak. A lot of Boomers graduated into good economies. For the Boomers that graduated into mild recessions during the Ford and Carter presidencies, they had a lot of their careers occur during the Reagan/Clinton booming economy years, which is when they had their Millennial children.
A lot of Boomers were able to get decent factory jobs early in life before offshoring and outsourcing happened. The Boomer generation didn't necessarily need a college degree to get a job, unlike a lot of Millennials. Also, for the Boomers that pursued higher education, higher education cost a lot less when Boomers were going to school. By the time Millennials went to college, college was already more expensive for a lower quality education and you had less plentiful job opportunites. The first half of the Millennials were finishing their education depending upon where they stopped either with the 9/11 recession or the late 2000s/early 2010s recession. The time in between the 9/11 recession and 2008 (Classes of 2003-2007) were not all that amazing either unless you were a real estate broker, banker doing shady loans, or Wall Streeter operating with bad financial instruments that nearly sunk the system in 2008. A lot of the early Millennials (1982-1987) got screwed big time by 2008-2011.
Whenever recessions hit, men get screwed more than women because most men's SMV is tied into their earning potential, unless they are complete deadbeats and get the vag excited as a result of their awesome criminal deadbeat lifestyle. Those men are more exception than rule. When recessions hit, in white collar, the women are often retained at first while the white men (the undesirables and so-called privileged) are the first to get laid off. It's usually the young white men that are the first to get laid off in white collar jobs, followed by the older white men, then minority men. All women are later in the priority order in terms of white collar layoffs. You know a company is in bad shape when they are laying off white collar women in masse. In smaller, more isolated terminations, the woman had to be far more incompetent than her male colleagues to absorb a termination.
When any woman gets laid off, her SMV doesn't take much of a hit. Women's SMV isn't at all tied into their jobs. Some women can actually become better girlfriends after a layoff because she has time to breathe and isn't career obsessed. Some women after a layoff can start porn cam sites (pre-Only Fans this was common) and now OnlyFans in the last few years. There are women who have either supplemented their white collar job income nicely from OnlyFans or replaced their corporate income from OnlyFans.
Growing up I remember video gaming was the norm for other boys my age, where as in the early 90s you'd have to get out of the house and go to the arcade to play. I feel you take some boys who are naturally more introverted and the next thing you know they use video games as a means to keep themselves occupied and they go through high school having never even talked to a girl, gone to prom, etc. I feel that if young men like this don't develop these skills in high school they get a second chance in college, if they even go, but after that it becomes increasingly difficult to overcome these issues. I've overheard so many conversations with even ugly women who'd say they would never date a virgin or inexperienced man. Society as a whole has placed, in my opinion, a lot more demands on men but coddled women like princesses, which I'll get into below.
I am an early Millennial and interacted with 1982-1985 birth years during my high school and college years. During my high school and college years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was becoming more common to go through high school without doing much in-person approaching or going to prom. The 1982-1985 birth years were on the first wave of the lot of the things that you illustrated that became even more common in the latter half of the Millennial generation.
Agree completely that there has been a coddling of women while demanding more on men. Women being less likely to get terminated in corporate setting is a part of that coddling.
I feel that social media is ultimately what is to blame for the unhealthy dynamic that women have with themselves. Go on any woman's social media and you'll see constant ego boosting, mostly from her female friends. It's now become acceptable, at least in white America, for women to get tons of tattoos, become fat, a *****, drug user, etc. You now have a bunch of trashy and low quality women but yet due to the current social culture they feel entitled to high quality men. I've heard of stories of overweight women refusing to date men for being overweight. As a 6'4", broad shouldered white man who lifts regularly I've had a couple women point out a fat chick and say to me that is my league and what I should be dating. Even a man like me only gets matched with fat chicks on tinder, last time I checked most men aren't well over 6' nor are they fit/muscular.
All true.
Your league as a 6'4" muscular man is not a fat woman. You deserve at least a normal weight woman and a woman who is at least average looking. A 6'4" muscular guy with a plain looking 5'5" woman who isn't overweight but isn't quite fit is somewhat of a settle job on the part of the man. It's acceptable but totally uninspired.
Women have so many men on social media trying to get with them. Then, if they decide to put themselves out on a swipe app, that number increases a lot. Women also field some amount of in-person approaches depending upon how they look. An average looking, childless 35 year old woman has more in-person options than a man who spends a lot of free time on swipe apps.